Beaumont ISD

West Brook weapon felony to be dropped

The then 20-year-old woman who brought a gun through the metal detectors at Beaumont ISD’s West Brook High School in the fall of 2022 will either enter a pre-trial diversion program or have her charge dropped to a misdemeanor, according to what the woman’s attorneys told Jefferson County 252nd...

$56,000 to 144 local schools

Area schools that received funds included: All Saints Episcopal School, Bridge City ISD, Beaumont ISD, Beaumont Classical Academy, Bob Hope Schools, Buna ISD, Deweyville ISD, East Chambers ISD, Evadale ISD, Hamshire-Fannett ISD, Hardin-Jefferson ISD, High Island ISD, Jasper ISD, Monsignor Kelly...

Odom denounces weapons rumor

According to a robo-call to parents of scholars at Beaumont ISD’s Odom Academy Middle School, on Jan. 20, word was circulating around the campus indicating a weapon had been secreted onto school grounds. However, according to campus administration, rumor of weapon on campus was false.

State rates Beaumont ISD campuses

Students aren’t the only ones sporting recently released grades this month, with school districts statewide also in receipt of earned scores kicking off 2023.

MLK Day in SETX: ‘A day on, not a day off’

A weekend of celebratory events culminated with the 37th annual MLK Jr. Brunch and Celebration at the Robert A “Bob” Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur on Monday, Jan. 16, in honor of the late Civil Rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Cash awarded for concerto winners

The first-place winner of the Symphony of Southeast Texas 2023 Concerto Competition is pianist Matthew Liu from Beaumont. Liu won the prize of $750 and the honor of playing his competition piece, Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G minor, at the Youth Education Concert.

The wind of Region 10

Sunday, Jan. 15, Odom Academy Middle School Band Director Fred Turner offered up congratulations to Beaumont ISD scholars Tina Huynh, flute, and Aiden Ma, clarinet, who performed with the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Region X All-Region Band.

Beaumont ISD theft charge dots docket for over a decade, now to conference at SCOTUS

Another year, another court date is down on the docket for former Beaumont ISD contract electrician Calvin Walker, indicted in 2014 for stealing from Beaumont taxpayers via exorbitant markups and falsified invoices presented to the BISD finance officer in the wake of a natural disaster.

ONGOING EXAMINER INVESTIGATION: Pauper’s plea precedes Supreme Court submission

With his Houston-area attorney swearing it’s true, former Beaumont ISD contract electrician Calvin Walker filed a plea of indigence before the U.S. Supreme Court just before Thanksgiving, Nov. 22.

Little details in Beaumont educator allegation

Beaumont ISD’s Communication team released word Monday, Dec. 5, that administration received allegations earlier the same day that a Beaumont United High School employee “engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a student.